<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10783]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3604]]></link><description><![CDATA[A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had rather ride on an asse that carries me, then a horse that throwes me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49502]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had rather ride on an asse that carries me, then a horse that throwes me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She can cover a lot of ground and is our quarterback in the outfield. She also has a great stick, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34260]]></link><description><![CDATA[She can cover a lot of ground and is our quarterback in the outfield. She also has a great stick, so she'll be important on offense and defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50542]]></link><description><![CDATA[To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that when you know something's going wrong, you make it right. That's what I learned in Vietnam. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60630]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that when you know something's going wrong, you make it right. That's what I learned in Vietnam. When I came back from that war I saw that it was wrong. Some people don't like the fact that I stood up to say no, but I did]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to encourage her own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22533]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to encourage her own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek peace, and pursue it. Proverbs 34:14 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek peace, and pursue it. Proverbs 34:14]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that every person is born with talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that every person is born with talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest. - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think there's any question it looks like they're left-handed, and rightly so. If you have those kinds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31882]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think there's any question it looks like they're left-handed, and rightly so. If you have those kinds of people on the field, you might as well take advantage of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. -Alphonse de Lamartine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was excited to see that we finally got in double digits in runs. It's been a cold spring for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31315]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was excited to see that we finally got in double digits in runs. It's been a cold spring for us with the bats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2423]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never less alone, than when alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never less alone, than when alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38754]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements and denials and vague distrusts and complicated disillusions. Then Melanctha would be sudden and impulsive and unbounded in some faith, and then she would suffer and be strong in her repression. Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like they said let's put a Post-it note on a turtle and then sit back and say we did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38934]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like they said let's put a Post-it note on a turtle and then sit back and say we did our duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed; Give us courage to change what should be changed; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55194]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed; Give us courage to change what should be changed; Give us the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're still seeing some overland flooding issues, but it looks like the dikes are doing fine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're still seeing some overland flooding issues, but it looks like the dikes are doing fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. . . . A huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue. Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open. [Lat., Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes: Fama malum quo non velocius ullum;  Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo;   Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras,    Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubilia condit.     . . . .      Monstrum, horrendum ingens; cui quot sunt corpore plumae       Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu,        Tot linquae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1150]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boston Globe is just struggling mightily. It's a function of the Boston economy; it's a function of the mergers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boston Globe is just struggling mightily. It's a function of the Boston economy; it's a function of the mergers of advertisers like Bank of America and Fleet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10033]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Manny we are getting a player who has won a couple of MLS championships in San Jose and who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36110]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Manny we are getting a player who has won a couple of MLS championships in San Jose and who is a solid, proven professional.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43334]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word "Action!" frees me - the transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word "Action!" frees me - the transformation is something I cannot explain - too much analysis might destroy it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good things, when short, are twice as good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good things, when short, are twice as good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time you can hold a team like that on defense, it makes the game easier for everybody. We count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time you can hold a team like that on defense, it makes the game easier for everybody. We count on the defense to make plays. That's what's going to win us games in the playoffs. We just have to keep playing hard and finish games and we'll have a chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12922]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to receive than to do an injury. [Lat., Accipere quam facere injuiam praestat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20913]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to receive than to do an injury. [Lat., Accipere quam facere injuiam praestat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance.  Lesse at thine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance.  Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest   Thy person share, and the conceit advance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17572]]></link><description><![CDATA[For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposedlimitations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21804]]></link><description><![CDATA[A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposedlimitations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Bhutan would stand out as a model, and Haiti is at the other end, ... And everybody else sort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35607]]></link><description><![CDATA[So Bhutan would stand out as a model, and Haiti is at the other end, ... And everybody else sort of falls in the middle somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think we can take out any ads, ... because it would be misleading. We don't have any tickets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34497]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think we can take out any ads, ... because it would be misleading. We don't have any tickets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5337]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5337</guid></item></channel></rss>